Lives of the English Poets, Waller, Milton, CowleyCassell, Limited, 1901 - 192 pages |
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Page 11
... verses on the prince's escape , the prediction of his marriage with the Princess of France must have been written after the event ; in the other , the promises of the king's kindness to the descendants of Buckingham , which could not be ...
... verses on the prince's escape , the prediction of his marriage with the Princess of France must have been written after the event ; in the other , the promises of the king's kindness to the descendants of Buckingham , which could not be ...
Page 12
... verse , but rejected his addresses , it is said , with disdain , and drove him away to solace his disappointment ... verses upon her ; " When you are as young , Madam , " said he , " and as handsome as you were then . " In this part of ...
... verse , but rejected his addresses , it is said , with disdain , and drove him away to solace his disappointment ... verses upon her ; " When you are as young , Madam , " said he , " and as handsome as you were then . " In this part of ...
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... verses written at Penshurst , it has been col- lected that he diverted his disappointment by a voyage ; and his biographers , from his poem on the Whales , think it not improbable that he visited the Bermudas ; but it seems much more ...
... verses written at Penshurst , it has been col- lected that he diverted his disappointment by a voyage ; and his biographers , from his poem on the Whales , think it not improbable that he visited the Bermudas ; but it seems much more ...
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... verses ( for he was near thirty years when he first engaged him- self in that exercise , at least that he was known to do so ) , he surprised the town with two or three pieces of that kind ; as if a tenth Muse had been newly born to ...
... verses ( for he was near thirty years when he first engaged him- self in that exercise , at least that he was known to do so ) , he surprised the town with two or three pieces of that kind ; as if a tenth Muse had been newly born to ...
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... verses on the Death of a Stag , he declared that he would give all his own compositions to have written them , and being charged with the exorbitance of his adulation , answered , that nothing was too much to be given , that a lady ...
... verses on the Death of a Stag , he declared that he would give all his own compositions to have written them , and being charged with the exorbitance of his adulation , answered , that nothing was too much to be given , that a lady ...
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